Nigerian woman poised to lead WTO after rival withdraws, Washington offers support

[Nout]

9 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

China and Russia will hate a Woman of Colour being in that position, along with several other misogynistic regimes around the world

 

Many African nations will not be happy a woman in this role.

[Nout]

4 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Indeed, a very clever woman.

 

BTW, shouldn't that be "Harvard graduated her"?

Graduated from Harvard

[Pilotman]

9 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

She graduated Harvard (economics) magna cum laude, she earned her Masters and PhD at MIT, has held three ministerial offices in Nigeria (Minister of Finance, Coordinating Minister of Economy and Minister of Foreign Affairs), she’s had a 25 career at the World Bank, Washington where she worked her way up to the post of Managing Director.

 

She seems more than qualified for the job.

 

more than qualified to run one more useless International  quango.  I have no remit about the lady, she seems a good candidate,  but the WHO is dysfunctional, ineffective and useless.  Good luck to her. 

Edited February 6, 2021 by Pilotman

[RJRS1301]

10 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

more than qualified to run one more useless International  quango.  I have no remit about the lady, she seems a good candidate,  but the WHO is dysfunctional, ineffective and useless.  Good luck to her. 

It is not WHO it is WTO.

 

[Chomper Higgot]

5 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Indeed, a very clever woman.

 

BTW, shouldn't that be "Harvard graduated her"?

Not in ‘American English’, no.

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

54 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

more than qualified to run one more useless International  quango.  I have no remit about the lady, she seems a good candidate,  but the WHO is dysfunctional, ineffective and useless.  Good luck to her. 

Says man who either doesn’t know the difference between to WTO and the WHO and/or suffers difficulties reading.

[Chomper Higgot]

3 hours ago, car720 said:

as long as she doesn't get my email address.

She’s been appointed to head an international organization, she doesn’t need the email addresses of insignificant nobodies.

[Pilotman]

54 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Says man who either doesn’t know the difference between to WTO and the WHO and/or suffers difficulties reading.

same same, I miss typed 

[billd766]

3 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Really? 

Really.

[billd766]

2 hours ago, Nout said:

Many African nations will not be happy a woman in this role.

Did any of those African nations put up a candidate as qualified as she is? If they did I would be surprised, and if they didn't, then start training less qualified people to replace her when she retires.

 

33 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

post deleted

 

[billd766]

33 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

same same, I miss typed 

Easy to do, especially if you have fat fingers like me.

[Pilotman]

32 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Easy to do, especially if you have fat fingers like me.

and me 

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, Pilotman said:

same same, I miss typed 

So now you need to explain how your negative comments towards the WHO are applicable to the WTO ( a few of examples would help illustrate the point).

 

Back at you!

[Morch]

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

She’s been appointed to head an international organization, she doesn’t need the email addresses of insignificant nobodies.

 

So she doesn't care about us ordinary folks....meh.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, Morch said:

 

So she doesn't care about us ordinary folks....meh.

The poster to whom I responded is insinuating that the appointed head of the WTO (a Nigerian) would want his email address for the purposes of email scamming, on the basis that she’s a Nigerian and Nigerian scam emails are a thing.

 

Holding your views on s range of subjects in respect, as I do, I’m surprised you didn’t grasp that.

[Morch]

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The poster to whom I responded is insinuating that the appointed head of the WTO (a Nigerian) would want his email address for the purposes of email scamming, on the basis that she’s a Nigerian and Nigerian scam emails are a thing.

 

Holding your views on s range of subjects in respect, as I do, I’m surprised you didn’t grasp that.

 

The poster you were just responding to (that's me) wasn't making a serious comment. I'm surprised you didn't grasp that. The previous but--can-she-cook comment should have been clue enough.

[pacovl46]

13 hours ago, saakura said:

What a sad and miserable person you come across with such a nasty and false comment. Because of bigots, she must have had to prove herself ten times over to be appointed to this post.

Didn’t really surprise you on here, did it? Africans and Muslims are really not popular on this forum, judging by the predominantly negative comments articles on them receive! Sad really! 

[Pilotman]

50 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So now you need to explain how your negative comments towards the WHO are applicable to the WTO ( a few of examples would help illustrate the point).

 

Back at you!

https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-world-trade-organization-is-weakening-and-thats-not-good-51548770447

[Chomper Higgot]

28 minutes ago, Morch said:

 

The poster you were just responding to (that's me) wasn't making a serious comment. I'm surprised you didn't grasp that. The previous but--can-she-cook comment should have been clue enough.

Morch, you have my sincere apologies.

[pacovl46]

40 minutes ago, Morch said:

 

So she doesn't care about us ordinary folks....meh.

It’s not part of her job description to care about you! 

[placeholder]

14 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

China and Russia will hate a Woman of Colour being in that position, along with several other misogynistic regimes around the world

 

Until Jan 20, your comment would have had some applicability to the US govt as well.

[Slain]

Anyway some nigerian scammers are ok. I had lots of nice chats with one. She stopped chatting after I said I was a poor man though????

[goldenbrwn1]

13 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

Please do some research next time before making racist asinine comments like this.

 

She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University with a degree in economics and has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngozi_Okonjo-Iweala.

 

I hope she did . But you can’t blame people for questioning it . Identity politics has caused things like this to be considered . And the now throw away word ‘racist’ has lost alot of its clout because of this divisive political thinking. 
 

Stop throwing it around , there are real racists out there you know!

[stevenl]

31 minutes ago, goldenbrwn1 said:

I hope she did . But you can’t blame people for questioning it . Identity politics has caused things like this to be considered . And the now throw away word ‘racist’ has lost alot of its clout because of this divisive political thinking. 
 

Stop throwing it around , there are real racists out there you know!

Yes, like the person the comment you responded to made.

[mjakob007]

15 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

She graduated Harvard (economics) magna cum laude, she earned her Masters and PhD at MIT, has held three ministerial offices in Nigeria (Minister of Finance, Coordinating Minister of Economy and Minister of Foreign Affairs), she’s had a 25 career at the World Bank, Washington where she worked her way up to the post of Managing Director.

 

She seems more than qualified for the job.

 

 

100%.

Well respected in the international community.

[goldenbrwn1]

2 hours ago, pacovl46 said:

Didn’t really surprise you on here, did it? Africans and Muslims are really not popular on this forum, judging by the predominantly negative comments articles on them receive! Sad really! 

Nor the white English fellows who apparently voted wrong in the EU referendum.

 

You see where we are now with this identitarian bull####

 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2021 by goldenbrwn1

[stevenl]

4 hours ago, billd766 said:

Easy to do, especially if you have fat fingers like me.

 

3 hours ago, Pilotman said:

and me 

It takes practice to fat finger mistype the'T' with the 'H'.

[goldenbrwn1]

31 minutes ago, mjakob007 said:

 

100%.

Well respected in the international community.

Yes she is and it’s a shame I and others have to question her appointment based on her ethnicity and sex.  But hey that’s what they want isn’t it. The boxes have to be ticked. 

Edited February 6, 2021 by goldenbrwn1

[Patong2021]

13 hours ago, Enzian said:

I sure don't care about her gender or skin color, I'd just like to know if she has an ideological bias in favor of China.

 

She take US citizenship in 2019 and the international comments are that China will object to a US national.

Do not assume because she is  African she is supporter of China.

 

7 hours ago, Nout said:

Many African nations will not be happy a woman in this role.

 

And some people do not like to eat brocoli.

 

I think more Africans will be  happy, proud and supportive. She is former Finance Minister of Nigeria, and a managing director of World Bank. Here credentials are impeccable. And for Africans who value family quality her family is as good as it can get; a daughter of brilliant accomplished parents, with her father  Royalty as he was a king, married to a respected physician, mother of 4 accomplished successful professional children and described as cultured.  She has superior social status and will intimidate many world bosses.

 

[RJRS1301]

6 hours ago, placeholder said:

Until Jan 20, your comment would have had some applicability to the US govt as well.

Until Jan20 USA was against her appointment, the only country voting against her appointment.  You are correct